You are right, --depth 1 will be helpful in reducing the downloaded assets, but on this I think I personally prefer to lower the entry bar with a simpler to understand/shorter command.
Also on this matters Cheerp usually follows LLVM upstream (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project), and they seems to prefer the simple git clone.
Hi @niansa, thanks for your contribution.
You are right,
--depth 1will be helpful in reducing the downloaded assets, but on this I think I personally prefer to lower the entry bar with a simpler to understand/shorter command.Also on this matters Cheerp usually follows LLVM upstream (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project), and they seems to prefer the simple
git clone.I will close for now, I have scheduled a proper review of the build instructions, that are then live here: https://docs.leaningtech.com/cheerp/Linux-build-instructions.
If you are looking to contribute, I would recommend joining discord.leaningtech.com, we can brainstorm there.